Artists

🤩 Joey “The CowPolka King” Miskulin 🤩

Member of the Nashville Cats and Riders in the Sky, 4 time Grammy winner, Country Music Hall of Fame inductee, K-Tel Records artist, Sony Music A&R, Disney/Pixar producer and musician and who has worked with just about every major artist on the planet..!!! 

Here are his words:
“These amps are incredible.They remind me of my childhood when amps were a work of art and came alive as soon as signal passed through it.” “When it comes to tone They remind me of the old Marshall Plexis that are so very collectible today.” “And what I like the most is that Wangs Amplification gives amateurs, bed room rockers, and small gig musicians the ability to play quality handwired amps.” Because lets face it, even gigging musicians usually don’t have the means to dump $4,000 on a Matchless DC30 or a Marshall JTM45 Reissue.” But those type of players are able to save their money to get an amp of that caliber for 1/3 of the cost.” I opened up the back and all the parts are of high quality which is why the tone is so transparent and vibes vintage handwired Marshall’s.” All in all Wangs Amplification is a step above the rest in the area where they compete.” And last but not least as soon as I heard them it immediately brought me back to the 70s and 80s. All in all a top notch brand at a price point where everyone can have these amps.”
– Joey Miskulin

Blues Hall of Fame inductee and Grammy winning artists Darrell Mansfield 

Initial Review: Wangs VT-5 combo: Vintage tone with a blues harp in the palm of your hand. To put it simply, this little guy puts out nothing but pure tube tone. At five watts, it breaks up perfectly and gives you a tone that sounds like a vintage blackface champ that’s being pushed exceptionally hard. Additionally the tone control on the amp can really brighten or darken your sound depending. With it cranked up, the VT-5 screams fender style sparkle.     

Wangs Artist Joao Cupertino of Labia from Portugal 

I came across the Wangs VT-15 by accident while I was living abroad for a while and needed a small amp for practice. My initial idea was to use while I was away and sell it before I came back home because I had already more than a dozen tube amps (some of them vintage amps) and I really had no need for one more amp… But this little amp really surprised me, it sounded really great (and loud) typical Marshall sound, because the preamp is based on the Marshall JCM800 with the addition of an effects loop between the master and the phase inverter, which is a great plus! Both the Hi and Low inputs are usable, nice cleans. Where this amp really excels is on the crunch to high gain sounds (I’m talking classic rock high gain, not metal high gain).
The only downside was that with my 1×12 cab with equipped with a Celestion Greenback it sounded too bright and I had to keep the Presence and Treble knobs very close to “0”, it sounded great but it bothered me that I had two EQ controls I was not able to use to make it a more versatile amp… So I went online and found some people with the same issue who had performed a mod (now known as the “Vasectomy Mod”) that consists of nothing more than clipping two bright caps on the input of the preamp (there is not even the need to use a soldering iron)… I’m by no means a technician but I know a little about electronics, I have opened all my amps and modded some of them, so I opened it and was really surprised with what I saw in the guts of the amp: decent size transformers, very well laid out, thick PCB, German made Wima capacitors, ceramic tube sockets, plywood enclosure, in short: a well designed amp with a build quality that is much better than most of the Chinese made amps I’ve seen (and I have seen a lot of them and owned some),
So I went forward with the “Vasectomy Mod” and as a result the Presence and Treble became very usable, I still can get the amp to sound very bright if I want to, but now I have the same sound I was getting with those knobs completely rolled off with them around the twelve o’clock position! By now I had decided this amp was a keeper and decided to upgrade the power tubes to a pair of JJ’s EL84, my “go to” EL84 tube: these are great sounding and cheap and it makes a very noticeable of difference, it really helps “rounding” the sound a bit more. Since then, I have used this amp extensively playing live on small to mid size venues, it is so small and light but still loud, and it has never let me down, very reliable.
I have also tried it with a lot of different cabs and speakers and it always delivers a great Marshall sound, I have used it as a preamp with a Marshall el34 50/50 power amp, I have changed V1 to a NOS Brimar 12UA7 which brings the gain down a lot but introduces a kind of “Voxy” characteristic to the sound, too cut a long story short: I’ve been having a lot of fun playing and experimenting with this amp, since it is a cheap amp I have no problem trying stuff I would not try with one of my vintage amps.
Is it the best amp in the world? Not by far! But for a Marshall sound on a budget in this price point (and even higher) with this build quality I can’t think of a better option even today, several years after this amp’s release.

Repeat customer Tim M:

— 5 starMeaty vintage tone with big shoulders – every gig I take it to, the sound guys freak out over the tone. Solid and dependable, meticulous attention to detail – what’s not to like? And for the price – you just can’t come close to the sound you get for the money with any other amp out there. Period. Thinking of getting a second one with a little less power for smaller gigs…..\m/ !!!!